Principal Investigator(s):United States Department of Justice. Federal Bureau of Investigation

Summary:

In response to a growing concern about hate crimes,
Congress enacted the Hate Crime Statistics Act of 1990. The Act
requires the Attorney General to establish guidelines and collect, as
part of the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, data "about crimes
that manifest evidence of prejudice based on race, religion, sexual
orientation, or ethnicity, including where appropriate the crimes of
murder and non-negligent manslaughter, forcible rape, aggravated
assault, simple assault, intimidation... (more info)

In response to a growing concern about hate crimes,
Congress enacted the Hate Crime Statistics Act of 1990. The Act
requires the Attorney General to establish guidelines and collect, as
part of the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, data "about crimes
that manifest evidence of prejudice based on race, religion, sexual
orientation, or ethnicity, including where appropriate the crimes of
murder and non-negligent manslaughter, forcible rape, aggravated
assault, simple assault, intimidation, arson, and destruction, damage
or vandalism of property." Hate crime data collection was required by
the Act to begin in calendar year 1990 and to continue for four
successive years. In September 1994, the Violent Crime Control and Law
Enforcement Act amended the Hate Crime Statistics Act to add
disabilities, both physical and mental, as factors that could be
considered a basis for hate crimes. Although the Act originally
mandated data collection for five years, the Church Arson Prevention
Act of 1996 amended the collection duration "for each calendar year,"
making hate crime statistics a permanent addition to the UCR
program. As with the other UCR data, law enforcement agencies
contribute reports either directly or through their state reporting
programs. Information contained in the data include number of victims
and offenders involved in each hate crime incident, type of victims,
bias motivation, offense type, and location type.

Access Notes

This data collection has been deaccessioned; it is no longer distributed by ICPSR.
Additional information may be available in Data Collection Notes.

2008-12-17 This data collection has been deaccessioned and is no longer available. Replaced by study 23625.

The data are organized in a hierarchical file
structure. There are two record types, batch header and incident
record. Each police agency represented in the file has a single batch
header record. If a police agency reported hate crime incidents, then
one incident record for each hate crime incident is listed in the file
immediately after the corresponding batch header record. There are 53
variables for the batch header record and 60 variables for the
incident record.

Study Description

Citation

U.S. Dept. of Justice. Federal Bureau of Investigation. UNIFORM CRIME REPORTING PROGRAM DATA [UNITED STATES]: HATE CRIME DATA, 2002. Compiled by the U.S. Dept. of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 2004. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04007.v1

Universe:
Hate crime incidents reported by law enforcement agencies
in the United States.

Data Types:
event/transaction data

Data Collection Notes:

2008-12-17 This data collection has been deaccessioned and is no longer available. Replaced by study 23625.

The data are organized in a hierarchical file
structure. There are two record types, batch header and incident
record. Each police agency represented in the file has a single batch
header record. If a police agency reported hate crime incidents, then
one incident record for each hate crime incident is listed in the file
immediately after the corresponding batch header record. There are 53
variables for the batch header record and 60 variables for the
incident record.

Methodology

Sample:
inap.

Data Source:

self-enumerated forms

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: